Damon Lindelof Quotes

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

It was good I left Brighton on a high, like I left Palace on a high but whether Carlisle to Rochdale or Brighton to Palace, as soon as I left that chapter was closed.

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

Havok ended a chapter of my life and I get to start a new one with MacGyver.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end - even if it's momentarily.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

You have to decide when it is time to move on.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

You can't think about the past anymore.

What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.

Whatever happened in the past is in the past.